Dean Talks Anime(?): Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Part Two: Television By Christopher Kinsey So, last time we looked at why animation has been a medium shunned by people trying to tell a story aimed at adults, but television has had a rich history of adult animation ultimately...

Dean Talks Anime(?): Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Part One: Animated Films By Christopher Kinsey Recent events in the animation industry serve to remind me of the constant rut animation in the USA has been continuously in since the turn of the century. Kids’ animation has always...

Andrew in Steamland: Hamming it Up Years ago, Max recommended a certain game to me, which I slotted into the “sometime this century” section of my backlog. It’s a horror-themed RPG Maker game that leads with a warning about the “scenes of violence and grotesque imagery” it...

Andrew in Steamland: You Like Castlevania, Don’t You? Recently, I had the uncomfortable realization that all the games to catch my attention this year are, in some way, remakes, re-releases, or reimaginings of games I’ve already played: Sonic Mania Plus, Genso...

The Flying Colors Foundation by M.A. Ngyuen Of all the controversies that have occurred in the anime community this year, none have been so forgotten as the Flying Colors Foundation. Appearing in March 2018, it quickly vanished leaving little to no trace of its existence outside of the fact...

Dean Talks Anime: A Frustration In Ethical Consuming An Opinion by Christopher Kinsey It has come to my attention that Trigger Inc., also known as Studio Trigger, has opened up a Patreon. One would think “That’s funny, Trigger is one of the hottest animation studios in Japan...

King of the Shill: Right Stuf Catalogue By Andrew Erickson Last week, I opened my mailbox to find a gaggle of anime girls staring back at me. Through some act of trickery, I had become the unwitting recipient of the first 2018 issue of Right Stuf [sic], which is the Sears catalog of...

Andrew in Steamland: Momodora the Explorer By Andrew Erickson Indie metroidvanias are about as plentiful as stench at a Smash Bros tournament, so what exactly is so special about Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight that I had to write an article about it? It isn’t like...

End of Rebuild of Evangelion: Redeath of Evangelion. By Bonglorio and Andrew ANDREW: Evangelion is one of those series so influential that any messing around with the story was bound to be contentious, let alone a full remake that adds new characters, has a 14-year timeskip, and...

Andrew in Steamland: Gaming in the Trump Years Honorable Mentions A lot of games and one new console were released in 2017, so let me get this out of the way right now: if your favorite game isn’t on this list, it isn’t necessarily because I hated it. I might...